Edgar Allan Poe

The song was Murders in the Rue Morgue.

It depends on your point of view, did he have money? no was he broke? no, he had stuff to live for, life and nature,

Literature

The Raven

(Vincent Price and Peter Lorre (as the Raven) are also in it.) Also let me add this regarding Roger Corman produced films that include Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff. In 1963 both of the aforementioned stars were filmed on the same set, back to back in 1963 these horror classics: The Terror and The Raven.

Edgar Allen Poe's autobiographical short story is the quintessential haunted house story featuring dreary scenes, mysterious sicknesses and untimely deaths. The vagueness of the story is the main part of its terror with its unidentifiable Gothic elements. It is not clear to the reader when or where the story takes place. Poe instead describes dark barren landscapes and inclement weather to set the mood. All the reader knows and understands is they are alone with the unnamed author and neither knows why.

The unnamed author describes his mind and personality as he rides toward the somber house. He meets his own insanity, superstitions, and horror when he describes his boyhood friend Roderick Usher. Poe asks the reader to question Roderick's decision in contacting the unnamed narrator in his time of need as well as the unnamed narrator's response. Poe contrasts the standard form of the gothic tale, with a plot of inexplicable, unexpected interruptions. The short story begins without a reason for the narrator's arrival at the house and this uncertainty drives this short story's plot, which blurs into the real and fantastic.

Roderick Usher shows his sanity slipping when he tells the narrator he dreads the future struggle with the fatal demon of fear. The unnamed narrator is shocked to see Roderick Usher has a striking resemblance to his sister Madeline, Poe's late wife. Poe refers to his late wife's eventual death when he mentions Roderick's complexion as the mockery of a faint blush, and gives a sense of foreboding to the story as it leads to the end when Madeline's return from the grave is found as an unexplained mystery.

Poe creates a sense of claustrophobia as the unnamed narrator is caught by the lure of Roderick and cannot escape unless the house collapses. The characters in the short story are trapped and cannot move freely because of the house's structure. This image gives the house a monstrous character of its own that controls the fate of the unnamed narrator and Roderick Usher. Poe masterly creates confusion between the living and inanimate objects by creating the physicality of the house of Usher.

The mansion is used as a metaphor, however it is described as a real house. The narrator not only gets trapped inside the mansion, but the reader learns that his confinement involves the biological fate of the Usher family. The Usher has no long lasting attachments which means that the Usher's genetic transmission has occurred incestuously in the house. The peasantry confuses the mansion with the Usher family because of the physical structure dictated to the genetic patterns of the family.

The claustrophobia of the mansion continues as it affects the characters relationships for example the unnamed narrator realizes to late that Madeline is Roderick's twin sister, which happens when both men prepare to entomb Madeline. The confined and cramped burial tomb metaphorically affects the features of the characters. The twins are very similar, because they do not develop as free individuals. Madeline is buried before her time because of her similarity to her brother. Roderick is the coffin, which holds her identity.

The reader discovers that Madeline suffers from problems, which effected woman in nineteenth century literature. She invests all of her identity to her body, whereas Roderick possesses the power of intellect. Madeline holds an almost superhuman power in the story when she successfully escapes her tomb. This counteracts Roderick's weak, nervous and immovable attitude.

It is said that Madeline is only a figment of Roderick's and the unnamed narrator's imagination; that she doesn't really exist. However, Madeline still proves detrimental to the symmetry and claustrophobic logic of this short story. She suffocates Roderick keeping him from seeing himself as different from her and completes this tactic by attacking and killing Roderick in the end.

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809

The revelers who entered the black chamber were NOT assured.

they both write stories about horror, death, murder, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy fiction. they both suffered from alcoholism and addictions that affected their writing. they both use the approach of using supernatural beings in their stories. Like talking about death and murder and killing.

It was one brick house in a series of brick row houses in the slums of Baltimore. Last time I saw it, it was a orienatal dry goods store.

Edgar Allan Poe as of Sept. 2004 has been said to suffer from Manic-Depressive Bipolar disorder. This would explain the fact that as time grew his writings became more disturbed, because the affliction worsens with time. Poe's drinking and smoking problems were more than likely a way of self-medication. However because we only have to go on biograghies and auto-biograghies we can not be exactly sure if this is the case. But using his own writings this is the conclusion.

He dies of fear when he comes face to face with his twin sister Madeline,

who had returned to the house after having been put in her tomb alive.

madeline fell on roderick

Vacant and eye-like windows

The Narrator reads this poem:

In the greenest of our valleys,

By good angels tenanted,

Once a fair and stately palace -

Radiant palace - reared its head.

In the monarch Thought's dominion -

It stood there!

Never seraph spread a pinion

Over fabric half so fair.

II.

Banners yellow, glorious, golden,

On its roof did float and flow;

(This - all this - was in the olden

Time long ago)

And every gentle air that dallied,

In that sweet day,

Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,

A winged odor went away.

III.

Wanderers in that happy valley

Through two luminous windows saw

Spirits moving musically

To a lute's well-tunéd law,

Round about a throne, where sitting

(Porphyrogene!)

In state his glory well befitting,

The ruler of the realm was seen.

IV.

And all with pearl and ruby glowing

Was the fair palace door,

Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,

And sparkling evermore,

A troop of Echoes whose sweet duty

Was but to sing,

In voices of surpassing beauty,

The wit and wisdom of their king.

V.

But evil things, in robes of sorrow,

Assailed the monarch's high estate;

(Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow

Shall dawn upon him, desolate!) ­[page 301:]

And, round about his home, the glory

That blushed and bloomed

Is but a dim-remembered story

Of the old time entombed.

VI.

And travellers now within that valley,

Through the red-litten windows, see

Vast forms that move fantastically

To a discordant melody;

While, like a rapid ghastly river,

Through the pale door,

A hideous throng rush out forever,

And laugh - but smile no more.

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Edgar Allen Poe is famous for "The Raven", "The Tell Tale Heart", and "The Black Cat", along with many other works.

He asks if he will ever see his love again

He begins abusing his wife and pet cat

Short sentences

Edgar Allan Poe was found in a delirious and disheveled state on October 3, 1849, in Baltimore. He was taken to a hospital where he died on October 7, 1849. The exact cause of his condition remains unknown.

logical thinking

Edgar Allan Poe's first real job was an editor for a newspaper. Poe got the job because he won a contest for writing a story called, The Manuscript Found in a Bottle" this was in 1835.

Some do believe that Poe was beaten by a gang and left to die since he was found on election day outside a polling place. (This often occurred in this time when gangs wanted a certain candidate to win.) The description of these events correspond with what Poe looked like when he was found.

If you mean one of his most famous works, "The Raven" is probably the most widely recognized.

"To The River" by Edgar Allan Poe explores themes of life, time, and the inevitability of mortality. The river symbolizes the passing of time and the journey towards death, highlighting the transient nature of life. The poem reflects on the cycle of life and death, urging readers to reflect on the passage of time and the finite nature of human existence.

John Allan withdrew his financial support from Edgar Allan Poe because Poe had a gambling problem and had racked up a lot of debt. John also thought Edgar's life lacked direction and wasn't on a steady course. John was Edgar's foster father.